838.51/1021: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Haiti (Bailly-Blanchard)
Washington, November
17, 1920—11 a.m.
105. Your 88, November 12, 5 p.m.50
Department finds no authority under terms of Treaty to try by provost court Haitian customs official held for theft and smuggling. To remove case from jurisdiction of civil courts would constitute in effect a denial of sovereignty of Haitian Government and afford a genuine cause of complaint.
Colby
- Not printed.↩